FROM NATIONAL TO GLOBAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH THEATRE Maria Rosaria Coda.
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Transcript of FROM NATIONAL TO GLOBAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH THEATRE Maria Rosaria Coda.
REVIVALISTS
• LADY GREGORY• W.B. YEATS• THE ABBEY THEATRE• RURAL IRELAND• TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE• REACTING TO BRITISH STEREOTYPES
THE IMAGINARY PEASANT
• TRUTH AND NATURE• ROMANTIC• SPIRITUAL • ANTIMATERIALISTIC• IRISH TRADITION & LANGUAGE
POST-COLONIAL TIMES
• Plays concerned with promises, realities and disappointments of national independence
• Opening to multicultural issues (see analysis by Jochen Achilles of Friel’s Making History & Berry’s Preyers of Sherkin)
BRIAN FRIEL (1929)
• FIELD DAY THEATRE
• DONEGAL
• POST-COLONIAL ISSUES IN HIS PLAYS
• CULTURAL IDENTITY
IDENTITY
• ARE CULTURES NATURALLY NATIONAL?• WHAT IS IDENTITY?• WHAT IS NATURAL, WHAT IS JUST A
CONSTRUCTION?